Terry Eagleton
Articles by Terry Eagleton
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Books
The Stratford man. Who was Shakespeare? Was he an underground Catholic? Did he play the lute? Was he run out of town? Short of a successful seance, we can never be sure. Terry Eagleton enjoys a biography that triumphs over the patchy evidence
- 15 November 2004
Will in the World Stephen Greenblatt Jonathan Cape, 430pp, £20 ISBN 022406276X
Books
Too clever by half. Even the left now despises intellectuals. We value knowledge only when it can be used to achieve something else, whether it is social cohesion or economic production. So the thinker has given way to the expert, and politics to technocracy
- 13 September 2004
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? Frank Furedi Continuum, 176pp, £12.99 ISBN 0826467695
Society
Big ideas - Rediscover a common cause or die
- 26 July 2004
Culture - We used to find unity in a shared heritage. Yet we are set on defining our difference
Diary - Terry Eagleton
- 17 May 2004
At the self-admiring EU enlargement ceremony in Dublin, they speak in Irish - a proud affirmation of ethnic identity by a country desperate to look exactly like Switzerland
World Affairs
A carnival of unreason. Fascists strut, conservatives lounge. Some conservatives believe in ideas, fascists prefer myths. Terry Eagleton makes important distinctions
- 03 May 2004
The Anatomy of Fascism Robert O Paxton Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 336pp, £20 ISBN 0713997206
Ideas
The last Jewish intellectual. Raised in Jerusalem and Cairo but educated in the US, Edward Said was a maverick both culturally and politically, yet he was also a great humanist of the old school. Terry Eagleton on "an imagination quickened by the diverse and unpredictable"
- 29 March 2004
Power, Politics and Culture: interviews with Edward W Said Edited and with an introduction by Gauri Viswanathan Bloomsbury, 485pp, £20 ISBN 0747571074
Ideas
The knock on the door. What was the difference between the Nazis and the Soviets? None, say some. But for all its atrocities - worse than the Third Reich in terms of murder - socialism fought to improve the welfare, employment and education of the common people
- 26 January 2004
Hope and Memory: reflections on the twentieth century Tzvetan Todorov Atlantic Books, 337pp, £22 ISBN 1903809479
Ideas
A charming despot
- 28 July 2003
Stalin: the court of the Red Tsar Simon Sebag Montefiore Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 693pp, £25 ISBN 842127268
Culture
Hard times
- 07 April 2003
False, fragmented and unfair, Dickens's 19th-century London offers a grimly prophetic vision of the world today. Terry Eagleton on why Bleak House remains one of our most urgently contemporary novels
